The profit, therefore, which childhood prophylaxis can yield is most dubious; it seems, indeed, that better success in the prevention of neuroses can be gained by attacking the problem through a changed attitude toward facts.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“—respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I never saw—so long dead—” Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look towards the hospital procession of negro cupids.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Europe began to investigate its own clothes, and the amount of books published on national costumes is quite extraordinary.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Damp rotten houses, many to let, many yet building, many half-built and mouldering away—lodgings, where it would be hard to tell which needed pity most, those who let or those who came to take—children, scantily fed and clothed, spread over every street, and sprawling in the dust—scolding mothers, stamping their slipshod feet with noisy threats upon the pavement—shabby fathers, hurrying with dispirited looks to the occupation which brought them ‘daily bread’ and little more—mangling-women, washer-women, cobblers, tailors, chandlers, driving their trades in parlours and kitchens and back room and garrets, and sometimes all of them under the same roof—brick-fields skirting gardens paled with staves of old casks, or timber pillaged from houses burnt down, and blackened and blistered by the flames—mounds of dock-weed, nettles, coarse grass and oyster-shells, heaped in rank confusion—small dissenting chapels to teach, with no lack of illustration, the miseries of Earth, and plenty of new churches, erected with a little superfluous wealth, to show the way to Heaven.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I will add that I really desire to save the people of North Carolina the damage they would sustain by the march of this army through the central or western parts of the State.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"Wherefore not; since all the powers of nature call so earnestly for the confession of sin, that these black weeds have sprung up out of a buried heart, to make manifest, an outspoken crime?" "That, good sir, is but a phantasy of yours," replied the minister.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He exists, so to speak, on a plan of numerous concentric circles, the most apparent of which is the small inmost circle, a personal puckish scepticism which can be easily aped if not imitated.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

But if we go any farther, and ascribe a power or necessary connexion to these objects; this is what we can never observe in them, but must draw the idea of it from what we feel internally in contemplating them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Again a concept based on experience of the physical purposiveness of nature could furnish no adequate proof for morality, or consequently for cognition of a Deity.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

A dagger terminated the crimes of Domitian; but the prudence of Nerva confirmed his acts, which, in the joy of their deliverance, had been rescinded by an indignant senate.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The line of perpetual snow is extremely high in this dry region, as it is in the equally dry peaks of northern Chile.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Likewise Tennessee, being a part of North Carolina, became slave territory.
— from The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy

By this agreement he was granted the right of discovery and conquest in Peru , or New Castile, with the titles of Captain-general of the province and Adelantado , or lieutenant-governor.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

[107] A great impetus had been given to the building of warships on the accession of Elizabeth, and a programme of naval construction was presented, providing for the building of twenty-eight ships during the ensuing five years; an enormous increase when it is considered that the whole navy when Mary died consisted of only twenty-two sail.
— from The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

Again we read of the falling rate of interest and of the failure of trusts and combines to resist the outside pressure of necessitous capital, seeking to force its way into industries.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

At the south point of New Caledonia, lies Matthew's Rock, a small smoking rocky island.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

Adela's eyes showed clearly enough that her ears were devouring every word we had said; and the glow on her face could not be mistaken by me at least, though to another it might well appear only the sign of such an enthusiasm as one would like every girl to feel in the presence of noble conduct of any kind.
— from Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by George MacDonald

This is important, inasmuch as a flow of honey may come unexpectedly from some plant ordinarily not counted upon; and also, since the conditions essential to the development of the various honey-yielding plants differ greatly, their time and succession of honey yield will also differ with the season the same as the quantity may vary.
— from Bee Keeping by Frank Benton

J., Notes on the Negroes in Guatemala in the Seventeenth Century , 392 Lannon, W. D., joined the Confederates, 390 Laurens, John, urged the arming of slaves, 118 Law, John, schemes of, 362 - 363 Lawrence County, Ohio, Negroes in, 4 , 306 Lawrence, Samuel, Negroes under, behaved well, 112 , 113 Lecky, tribute of, to Negro troops, 129 Lees, migrated to Detroit, 24 , 26 Leile, George, letters of, 80 , 81 , 84 Lemoyne, Dr. Francis J., teacher of M. R. Delany, 106 Letters on slavery by a Negro, 60 ; letters showing the rise and progress of Negro Churches in Georgia and the West Indies, 69 Lewiston, Pennsylvania, anti-colonization meeting of, 287 Liberia, the Republic of, discussed, 313 Lincoln, a desire of, for the support of Kentucky, 377 , 384 Lindsay, Rev. Mr., baptized Negroes in New Jersey, 355 Locke, Rev. Richard, baptized Negroes in Pennsylvania, 355 Longworth, Nicholas, aided colored schools of Cincinnati, 19 Louis-Philippe, the expulsion of, celebrated in Washington, 244 Louisiana, prostration of, 374 - 375 ; relieved somewhat by Negro refugees, 375 Lowth, Bishop, urged the conversion of Negroes, 350 Lundy, Benjamin, work of, in Tennessee, 145 Lutherans, in the West, 134 Lyell, Sir Charles, on the Negroes of Cincinnati, 18 Lyme, anti-colonization meeting of, 286 Madison, James, urged the emancipation and arming of slaves, 118 Magoffin, Governor, tried to aid the Secessionists in Kentucky, 382 Mann, Horace, offered to aid Daniel Drayton, 251 Manumission Society of Tennessee, 145 Marshall, Abraham, letters of, 77 , 78 , 85 Marshall, Humphrey, views of, 377 , 384 Maryland, the enlistment of Negroes in, 120 Maryville, Tennessee, favorable to Negroes, 147 - 149 Massachusetts, arming the slaves in, 120 May, Samuel, helped to furnish defense for Daniel Drayton, 251 McSparran, conducted a class of Negroes, 359 Mehlinger, Louis R., The Attitude of the Free Negro toward African Colonization of, 276 Mennonites in the West, 134 Mercer County, Ohio, Negroes in, 9 , 306 Middletown, anti-colonization meeting at, 286 Migration of Negroes, West Indian, 370 - 371 ; to the Northwest Territory, 1 Miller, Kelly, The Historic Background of the Negro Physician , 99 Monmouth, Negroes in the battle of, 129 Moore, Edwin, father of Maria Louise Moore, 23 Moore, Maria Louise, her struggles and triumphs, 23 Moral Religious Manumission Society of West Tennessee, 145 Moravians, in the mountains, 134 Morris, Robert, Jr., offered to aid Daniel Drayton, 251 Mountaineers, attitude of, toward slavery, 147 ; their efforts to elevate the slaves, 148 , 149 , 150 ; supported the Union, 149 , 150 ; aided the Underground Railroad, 146 ; attitude of, toward the American Colonization Society, 146 Mulatto corsair, a, 397 Mundin, William, declaration of, 238 Nantucket, anti-colonization meeting at, 288 Natchez, Negroes captured by, 370 National Council, 299 - 300 Neau, Elias, work of, 356 - 358 ; supposed connection with Negro riot, 357 Negro, The, in American History , reviewed, 94 ; Negro Culture in West Africa , reviewed, 95 ; Negro Soldiers in the American Revolution , 110 ; What the Negro was thinking in the Eighteenth Century , 49 Negroes, contribution of, to civilization, 36 ; Notes on the Negroes of Guatemala in the Seventeenth Century , 392 Neill, Rev. Mr., preached to Negroes at Dover, 355 Neutrality in Kentucky, 383 , 385 ; became dangerous policy, 385 ; abandoned, 389 New Bedford, anti-colonization meeting at, 293 New England, work among Negroes of, 359 New Hampshire, the enlistment of Negroes in, 120 New Jersey, teaching Negroes in, 355 New York, the enlistment of Negroes in, 120 ; instruction of Negroes in, 356 ; anti-colonization meetings of, 285 , 288 , 289 Newman, Rev. Mr., worked among Negroes, 353 North Carolina, slavery in, 142 Northampton County, Virginia, records of black masters, 237 Ohio, Negroes owned land in, 8 - 9 ; "Black Laws" of, 4 ; Law of 1849, 12 ; Negroes transplanted to, 302 ; protest against, 308 ; Negroes an issue in the Constitutional Convention of, 4 Ordinance of 1787, interpretation of, 377 "Othello," letters of, on slavery, 49 - 60 Otis, James, influence of, in the uplands, 138 Palomeque, a hard master, 396 Parham, William, a teacher of Negroes, 19 Park, Dr. R. E., review of Race Orthodoxy of, 439 Patoulet, M., decision of, 366 Patterson, Senator, speech at Louis-Philippe celebration, 245 Payne, Daniel A., on colonization, 296 Pearl, The Fugitives of , 246 Pelhams moved to Detroit, 26 , 29 Pennington, J. W. C., opposed colonization, 293 People of Color in Louisiana , 361 Perier, Governor, fought Indians with Negroes 368 , 369 ; tribute to Negroes Philadelphia, anti-colonization meetings of, 277 , 279 ; Convention of Free People of Color at, 290 , 291 Philanthropist, The , office of, destroyed, 8 Physicians, Negro, the number of, 107 Piatt, James W., efforts with Cincinnati mob, 14 Pittsburgh, anti-colonization meetings of, 287 , 292 Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Negroes from, 4 Point Bridge, Negro soldiers behaved well at battle of, 129 Political History of Slavery, The , by James Z. George, reviewed, 340 Political theories of Appalachian America, discussed, 129 Polk, invaded Kentucky, 390 Prejudice against the colored people in Cincinnati, 12 - 13 Presbyterians, anti-slavery, in Kentucky, 143 Pressly, J., a colored photographer, 20 Prince William County, Virginia, a Negro of, owned his family, 241 Professions, Negroes in, 99 - 101 Protests against African colonization, 277 - 296 Providence, anti-colonization meeting of, 293 Pugh, Rev. Mr., baptized Negroes in Pennsylvania, 355 Puritan, attitude of, toward Negro, 359 Purvis, Dr. Charles B., a Negro surgeon in the Civil War, 107 Quakers, interested in colonizing Negroes in the Northwest, 3 ; work of, among Negroes of Appalachian America, 133 , 134 Quickly, Mary, owner of slaves, 238 Race Orthodoxy in the South , reviewed, 447 Racial characteristics on the frontier, 135 Racial elements in Appalachian America, 133 Radford, James, sold a Negro, 238 Radford, George, purchased a Negro woman, 238 Ramsey's estimate of Negroes lost to British, 116 Randolph, John, the slaves of, sent to Ohio, 308 , 310 , 311 , 312 Ransford, Rev. Mr., baptized Negroes in North Carolina, 353 Redpath, James, appointed commissioner of emigration of Haiti, 300 Richards, Adolph, came to Fredericksburg for his health, 23 ; married Maria Louise Moore, 23 Richards, Fannie M., studied in Toronto, 30 ; taught in Detroit, 31 Richmond, meeting of, to denounce the American Colonization Society, 277 Rider, Sidney, opinion of the services of Negro troops, 128 Ripley, Dorothy, letters received, 436 Riots, in Cincinnati, in 1836, 8 ; in 1841, 13 - 16 ; in New York, 357 Robert, M., decision of, with reference to Negroes, 366 Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, "l'esclavage" of, 430 Rochester, anti-colonization meeting of, 293 Roman, C. V., The American Civilization of, reviewed, 218 Ross, Rev. G., commended Mr. Yeates for work among Negroes, 354 , 355 Rumford, Rev. Mr., baptized Negroes, 353 Rush, Benjamin, talks with James Derham, 103 Rutledge, Governor, freed a slave for his valor in battle, 129 Ryall, Anne, teacher in Cincinnati, 19 St. John de Crèvecoeur, observations of, 404 Salem, Peter, killed Major Pitcairn, 112 Sanderson, Bishop, urged the instruction of Negroes, 350 Sankore, the university of, 40 Savannah, a freedman of, favored colonization, 280 Sayers, Captain, owner of the Pearl , 246 Sayers, W. Berwick, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor of, reviewed, 438 Sayre, Rev. J., instructed Negroes, 358 Schoepf, Johann D., impressions of, 405 Schuyler, M., opposed the instruction of Negroes, 359 Secession in Kentucky, 377 , 378 , 385 , 389 , 390 Secker, Bishop, appeal in behalf of the enlightenment of Negroes, 352 Seward, W. H., offered to aid in defending Daniel Drayton, 251 Sewell, Samuel, endeavored to aid Daniel Drayton when accused, 251 Shelby County, Ohio, Negroes in, 309 Shelton, Rev. Wallace, a preacher of Cincinnati, 20 Simon, a Negro officer in Louisiana, 391 Simon, the Negro doctor, 102 Simpson, Henry, a preacher in Ohio, 20 Slaveholding Indians, The , reviewed, 339 Slavery, in North Carolina, 142 ; in Western Virginia, 142 ; in Tennessee, 143 ; in Kentucky, 144 Slaves of the 18th century, learning a modern language, 164 ; learning to read and write, 175 ; educated ones, 185 ; in good circumstances, 189 ; brought from the West Indies, 191 ; various kinds of servants, 194 ; relations between the Negroes and the British during the Revolution, 200 ; relations between the blacks and the French, 201 ; colored Methodist preachers among the slaves, 202 ; slaves in other professions, 205 ; close relations of the slaves and indentured servants, 206 Smith, Dr. James McCune, physician in New York, 104 ; opposed to colonization, 293 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, organized, 349 work of, 350 Songhay, empire of, discussed, 41 South Carolina, the enlistment of Negroes in, 122 ; Hamilton's letter on, 121 - 122 ; resolutions of Congress concerning, 123 -124; efforts to instruct Negroes of, 350 - 352 Spaniards, attitude of, toward slavery, 361 Stafford, A. O., African Proverbs and Antar of, 42 , 151 Stephenson, John W., views of, 378 Steward, T. G., The Haitian Revolution of, reviewed, 93 ; Gouldtown of, reviewed, 221 Steward, Rev. Mr., found a colored school in North Carolina, 354 Story of a Negro cook, 372 of a Negro blacksmith, 372 Stoupe, Rev. Mr., instructed Negroes in New Rochelle, 358 Stowe, H. B., inquiry of, 295 Sturgeon, Rev. W., taught Negroes in Philadelphia, 355 Sudan, the kingdoms of, 37 Sumner, Alphonso, on African colonization, 297 Sutcliff, Robert, observations of, 434 Swigle, Thomas Nichols, the letters of, 85 , 88 Taylor, Dr., educated in Washington, 105 Taylor, Mr. Charles, instructed blacks in New York, 358 Taylor, Rev. E., a missionary in South Carolina, 351 ; report of, 351 Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-, Life of , reviewed, 446 Tennessee, Manumission Society of, 144 ; Moral Religious Manumission Society of West Tennessee, 144 Thomas, General, urged the enlistment of Negro troops, 117 , 129 Thomas, Rev. Mr., taught Negroes in South Carolina, 350 Thompson, C. M., Reconstruction in Georgia of, reviewed, 343 Tilley, Virginia C., a teacher, 19 Timbuctoo, the university of, 40 Trades Unions against Negroes, 12 Traveler's Impressions of Slavery in America from 1750 to 1800 , 399 Trenton, anti-colonization meeting, 288 Typical Colonization Convention, A , 318 Underground Railroad, in the mountains, 146 Union cause in Kentucky, the, 380 , 391 Usher, Rev. J., mentioned Negroes desiring baptism, 359 Vandroffen, Petrus, opposed the education of Negroes, 359 Vesey, Rev. Mr., interested in the Negroes of New York, 356 Vindication of Negroes, 408 Virginia, laws of, to prohibit the education of Negroes, 119 ; slavery in the western part of, 142 ; colored freemen as slave owners in, 233 Wansey, Henry, on slavery, 427 Warden, D. B., observations of, 3 Warren, John, a preacher in Ohio, 8 Washington, Augustus, attitude of, toward emigration, 297 Washington, Booker T., note on, 98 Washington, George, on the enlistment of Negroes, 113 , 115 , 125 Wattles, Augustus, induced Negroes to go to Ohio, 8 Webster, Daniel, petition of, 241 Weld, Isaac, observations of, 432 West, Dr., master of James Derham, 103 West Indian migration, 370 , 371 West, Reuben, a black master,
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

Those of England, at Plymouth, of the Dutch, at New Amsterdam, and of the Swedes, in New Jersey, were speedily seen, while yet roamed the Tuscarora in undisturbed possession of North Carolina.
— from School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore